Domestic Annals of Scotland
Reign of Mary: 1561 - 1565

Edinburgh July 2nd 1563 :- Robert Henderson receives twenty Merks for Wonderful cures

At the same time there were not wanting amongst us pretenders to the surgical art.

In this very month, Robert Henderson attracted the favourable notice of the town-council of Edinburgh by performing sundry wonderful cures—namely, healing a man whose hands had been cut off, a man and woman who had been run through the body with swords by the French, and a woman understood to have been suffocated, and who had lain two days in her grave. The council ordered Robert twenty merks as a reward.